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2013

Vol. IV, No.5, May 2013

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Wes Anderson’s “Hotel Chevalier,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction — Russell Working
• Revisiting Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet — Paul M. Curtis
• The Dark Speech of Silence Laboring: Osip Mandelstam’s Poems & Translations — Betsy Sholl
• Elephants Can Remember| Childhood — Hilary Mullins
• Desecration & Reconciliation in Shirley Falls, Maine: Review of The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout — Steven Axelrod
• A Mother I Cannot Find Again: Memoir — Robert Day
• Graffiti Art: Photographs — David Helwig
• Grade | Short Fiction — Stephen Henighan
• Disciples of Friction: Poems — Jordan Smith
• Mark Twain, Nietzsche, and Terrible Truths that can Set Us Free — Patrick J. Keane
• Underground Man Revisited | Review of My Struggle: Book Two, A Man In Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard — Eric Foley
• The Connoisseurship of the Word | Interview with David Ferry — Peter Mishler
• From Smallness to Greatness: The Forgotten Poetry of Lorine Niedecker — Anne Loecher
• Use & Beauty: Furniture as Art — Leonard Bellanca
• What It’s Like Living Here — Donald Quist in Bangkok
• Albatross: Fiction — Simon Fruelund translated from Danish by K. E. Semmel
• Nabokov’s Exoneration: The Genesis and Genius of Lolita — Bruce Stone

Vol. IV, No. 4, April 2013

• The Art of the Book & the Book as Art: Numéro Cinq’s April Issue
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Woodkid’s “I Love You,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• The General Indifference of Sand: Poems — Jean Portante Translated by Pierre Joris
• Soundings: Poems & Photographs — Richard Jackson
• The Cosmic Conversation, A Note on Plato’s Timaeus — Jacob Glover
• End of the Fire Cult: Fiction — Angela Woodward
• Seeing Jane and Don | A Visit With Artist Jane Buyers & Playwright Don Druick — Ann Ireland
• Sweet to my heart | Translations of Tamil Love Poems — A. Anupama
• Poetry’s Om | Essay — A. Anupama
• Laundromats, Lucky Charms and the Labors of Herakles | Review of Anne Carson’s Red Doc> — Richard Farrell
• Leconte de Lisle’s Les Roses d’Ispahan | Translation & Performance — Marilyn McCabe
• Essay as Evolutionary Advantage (après Borges) — Patrick Madden
• A Short Film About My Father | Fiction — rob mclennan
• Laughing at Despair: Review of The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte — Benjamin Woodard
• Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: John Ashbery and Tadeusz Różewicz — Robert Day
• How Should A Writer Be? | Interview With Sheila Heti — Jill Margo
• Books as Art, Books as Sculpture, Sculpture as a Poem: Marilyn R. Rosenberg Interviewed by Nance Van Winckel

Vol. IV, No. 3, March 2013

Vol. IV, No. 2, February 2013

• Marty and Ed: Fiction — Edward Maitino
• Be It Resolved: Create More, Worry Less | Collages — Diane Schoemperlen
• Pony and Graveyard: A Dream of the Flesh — Sydney Lea
• Wounds & Doubles: Poems — Yahia Lababidi
• Getting Down to the Algorithm: An Interview with Alexander MacLeod — Benjamin Woodard
• On Fathers, Losses, and Other Influences: Essay — Bunkong Tuon
• Can the Devil Speak True? Paintings — Deborah Zlotsky
• Reflection: Photograph & Poem — John Haney & Amanda Jernigan
• What if God is One of Us? A Note on Derrida — Jacob Glover
• Self-Control: Novel Excerpt — Stig Sæterbakken
• Our Hideous Decorum: A Review of Stig Sæterbakken’s Self-Control — Jason DeYoung
• The Consecution of Gordon Lish: An Essay on Form and Influence — Jason Lucarelli
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Alice Winocour’s “Kitchen” — R. W. Gray
• Triptych: Fiction — Rosalie Morales Kearns
• Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity — Maggie Kast
• Ghost City: What It’s Like Living Here — Joe Milan in Seoul, Korea

Vol. IV, No. 1, January 2013

•  Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Nicholas Humphries and Meagan Hotz’s “Little Mermaid” — R. W. Gray
• The Days Run Away: Poems — Robert Currie
• Someday Project: Drawings/Paintings — Gina Occhiogrosso
• Haruspex: Poems — Peter Mishler
• The Absolute Nonsense of Daniil Kharms: Translation — Alex Cigale
• Sleepless: Poem — Jane Eaton Hamilton
• The Ambiguous Legacy of Nietzsche: Essay — Patrick J. Keane
• Smoke Is Still Rising: Fiction — Taiaiake Alfred
• The 19th Century & Milan’s Duomo: A Collage of Impressions and Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• My Body’s Devotion: Poems — Ralph Angel
• Dogfights: Fiction — Richard Farrell
• The Exile and Return of Poetry: Essay — Ralph Angel
• Childhood — Tiara Winter-Schorr

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2012

Vol. III, No. 28, December 2012

• Keep the Change: Fiction — William Gillespie
• A Short Sad Story: Essay — Sydney Lea
• Thou Beside Me Singing: The April Poems — Leon Rooke
• A Cut: Fiction — Quim Monzo
• Ship of Fools: A Review of Quim Monzo’s A Thousand Morons — Richard Farrell
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ekaterina Vorobyeva’s “Entire World is Mine,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Andreas Pasvantis’s “December,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Calculust: A Mathematical Romance — Jonah Glover
• Shaken Not Stirred, The Author Who Invented James Bond — Steven Axelrod
• The Two Trees, Very Small Works: Woodcuts — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
• My Father’s Artificial Hip, A Cherokee Marble & Other Writing Aids: An Interview with George Singleton—Jason DeYoung
• Without Pedigree: A Review of George Singleton’s Stray Decorum — Jason DeYoung
• Deadlift: Poems — Sharon McCartney
• Limits of Light: Photographs — John Solaperto
• Gare du Nord: Fiction — Donald Breckenridge

Vol. III, No. 27, November 2012

• It’s About Orgasm; It’s Not About A Musk Ox: Interview with Former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall — Anne Loecher
• Who Am I? What the Lowly Riddle Reveals — Julie Larios
• The Pitch: Drawing — China Marks
• Late: Video Poem — Elise Levine
• On a Writer Dying Young: Essay — Richard Farrell
• The Perfume Trees of Arkansas: Fiction — Garry Craig Powell
• at risk or at least? Poems by Nicole Markotić — With an Afterword on her Poetics by Tammy Armstrong
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Guy Ritchie’s “Un Rendez Vous” Introduced by Jon Dewar
• At the Bottom of Memory: Video & Installation by Joanne Lyons — Introduced by Kim Aubrey
• The Divine Imagination: Sermon — Hilary Mullins
• Herbert Marcuse: Believing in Ghosts As a Way Toward Philosophy — Jacob Glover
• The Love Gap: Review of Emily Perkins’ The Forrests — Erin Stagg

Vol. III, No. 26, October 2012

• Mountain Visions and Imaginative Usurpations: Essay — Patrick J. Keane
• Angel on Fire: The Gothic World of Sophie’s Choice — Mary Rickert
• Fucked up and Beautiful: Review of Shane Jones’ Daniel Fights a Hurricane — Jason DeYoung
• The Box Does Not Need To Be Square: An Interview with Todd Bartel — Nance Van Winckel
• Books Made of Paper: Essay — Fleda Brown
• Your Dog Makes Me Smile: Fiction — Caroline Adderson
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Adrián Cardona, Rafa Dengrá, & David Muñoz’s Brutal Relaxation  — Jared Carney
• Even the Done: Poems — Micheline Maylor
• Highs and Lows on the Bay of Fundy: Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• The Boundless Chaos of Living Speech: A Homophonic Translation by Hugh Thomas & an Essay by Sarah Bernstein
• Fire & Ice: Photographs — Roger Crowley
• A Fable: Poem — David Helwig
• Blessed With Memory: A Review of Richard Ford’s Canada — Benjamin Woodard

Vol. III, No. 25, September  2012

• A Poetry of Petition: W. B. Yeats’s “The Stare’s Nest by my Window” and Derek Mahon’s “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford” — Patrick J. Keane
• Big Texas Sky: Composing an Album — Darryl Gregory
• A Message for the Emperor: Fiction — Mark Frutkin
• Childhood — Tom Bauer
• Into the Looking Glass: Memoir — Christy L. Clothier
• Tragically Disproportionate: A Review of Jon McGregor’s This isn’t the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone Like You — Debra Martens
• Stray Dog Poetics: Poems by Shane Rhodes With an Afterword by Rob Ross
• The Madman and the Seismograph: From Braided Worlds — Alma Gottlieb & Philip Graham
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where is my Romeo?” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• White Shirts: Essay — Sophfronia Scott
• After this/ I lead you into form: Poems — Gerard Beirne
• The Journey Home: Music In Remembrance — Diane Moser
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Lucrecia Martel’s “Pescados” Introduced by Sophie M. Lavoie
• Becoming a Poet: A Way to Know — Sydney Lea
• Bushwacked by Inspiration: An Interview with Steven Heighton — Richard Farrell
• Unmeasured Depths: A Review of Steven Heighton’s The Dead Are More Visible — Richard Farrell

Vol. III, No. 24, August 2012

• The Diplomat: Fiction — Christy Ann Conlin
• Sometimes It Is, Sometimes It Isn’t: Fiction — Robert Day
• Picture Me Awake: Poems — Rigoberto González
• The Senses of an Ending: The Grapes of Wrath, Novel and Film — Patrick J. Keane
• David Grossman’s See Under: Love — Jacob Paul
• Healing Waters: Memoir — Harry Marten
• How to Write an Essay — Garry Craig Powell
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jamie Travis’s “The Saddest Boy in the World,” introduced by R W Gray
• Les Amazones: Fiction — Josée Marcotte
• The sound of me stepping on a poem one Monday afternoon: Poems & Images — Ray Hsu
• Bonjour & the Violet Ox: The French Song — Jonah & Jacob Glover
• Building the Maddening Dream: Techniques for Constructing & Conveying Fictional Worlds — Jacqueline Kharouf
• What It’s Like Living Here — from Tiara Winter-Schorr in Manhattan
• Getting Carried Away: Memoir — David Carpenter
• Revisiting Tahrir Square: Photographs & Text — Natalia Sarkissian
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Wong Kar Wai’s “Chungking Express,” introduced by R W Gray
• Roboterinner Lied & The House my Grandfather Built: Original Music — Ariane Miyasaki
• Leaving the Zoo: A Fictional Memoir — Patrick J. Keane

Vol. III, No. 23 July  2012

• Antarctica: Paintings — Laura Von Rosk
• One Good Hustle: Fiction — Billie Livingston
• Unwrapping Miss Frost: Time & Structure in John Irving’s In One Person — Jacob Glover
• Kate O’Rourke, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett: Wait & Party — Nonfiction by Michael Bryson
• Flirting With Disaster: Aphorisms — Yahia Lababidi
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Bryn Chainey’s film for Alcoholic Faith Mission’s “Legacy,” introduced by R W Gray
• Bird Nights: Fiction — Jane Eaton Hamilton
• Je vous présente Véronique: des nouvelles — Gilles Pellerin
• Of Chess & Novels: Interview with Jennifer duBois — Rimas Blekaitis
• Unfolded: Fiction — Sheridan Hay
• Autoportrait: Nonfiction — Edouard Levé
• The Death of Sophistication: A Review of Edouard Levé’s Autoportrait — Jason DeYoung
• It’s All Demons! Horror & Art: An Interview With Susie Moloney — Billie Livingston
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Alexander Payne’s “14e Arrondissement,” introduced by R W Gray
• Fault Lines: Fiction — Gerard Beirne
• The Hit, The Film & The Novel — Russell Working (Writer, Actor, Director, Producer)
• The Words Were Said: Poems by Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin — Translated by Marilyn McCabe

Vol. III, No. 22, June 18 & June 25, 2012

• Sacred Connections: A mixed media installation by Elizabeth Babyn — Introduced by Kim Aubrey
• In Caddis Wood: Fiction by Mary François Rockcastle
• Whipping Post & Behind Blue Eyes: Jazz Piano — John Nazarenko
• My Lives Among the Stars: Fiction — Lawrence Sutin
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: the goldfish in Miranda July’s “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” introduced by R W Gray
• Gauteng and the Cape Peninsula: Encountering South Africa — Natalia Sarkissian
• Black Boxes: On Reading Jennifer Egan’s Twitter Story — Bruce Stone
• The Man With No Name Rides Into The Classroom: A Review of Detachment — Richard Hartshorn
• Women Who Smoke: Fiction — Sybil Baker

Vol. III, No. 21, June 4 & June 11, 2012

• What It’s Like Living Here — From Lisa Roney in Orlando
• The Battleship of Maine: Nonfiction — Jordan Smith
• Tweet rebelle de @pierrepaulplau: Twitterature — Jean-Yves Fréchette
• Vee: Fiction — T. Greenwood
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Roman Polanski’s “A Therapy,” introduced by R W Gray
• Escape and Escapism: The Jane Whitefield Novels of Thomas Perry — Steven Axelrod
• The Science of Writing: An Interview with Nick Arvin — Jacqueline Kharouf
• The Valley of the Shadow: Fiction — dee Hobsbawn-Smith

Vol. III, No. 20, May 21 & May 28, 2012

• Capturing the Equivalences: Interview With Translator Steve Dolph — Richard Farrell
• Scars: Fiction — Juan José Saer
• Desperate Wagers: A Review of Scars by Juan José Saer — Richard Farrell
• What It’s Like Living Here — From Jennifer McGuiggan in Greensburg, PA
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Johan Renck’s “Pass This On,” introduced by R W Gray
• The Goodtime Girl: Fiction — Tess Fragoulis
• Paris Street Live: Photographs — Mark Lavorato
• Of Flowers & Of Fire: Poems — Emily Pulfer-Terino

Vol. III, No. 19, May 7 & 14, 2012

• What It’s Like Living Here — from Vanessa Blakeslee in Maitland, Florida
• Constructed Spaces: Paintings by Christina Hutchings — Introduced by Kim Aubrey
• Sanctuary from Cliché: A Review of Geoff Dyer’s Zona — Jason DeYoung
• La Danse from Karibu: Jazz Piano — Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius & Heard
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Eddie White and Ari Gibson’s “The Cat Piano,” introduced by Jon Dewar
• Happiness: A Poem — Mark Lavorato
• Letter from Taos: Cowgirls Ride the Trail of Truth — Jean-Marie Saporito
• Heidegger, Floss, Elfride, and the Cat: Fiction — Leon Rooke

Vol. III, No. 18, April 30, 2012

• An Awesome Proposal: Nonfiction — Bruce Hiscock
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Isabella Rossellini’s “Seduce Me: Noah’s Ark,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• The Lights of Henderson: Fiction — Martha Petersen
• On the Suicides at the NY/Canada Border & Other Poems — Jordan Smith
• What It’s Like Living Here — Wendy Voorsanger in San Mateo
• The Jailed Wizards: A Tale — Mike Barnes

Vol. III, No. 17, April 23, 2012

• From The Secret Life of Objects: Memoir — Dawn Raffel
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: This Is It Collective’s “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” — Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Into the Realm of the Dark: Nonfiction — Richard Farrell
• The Ice Man Experience: Sculpture & Words by Tyler & Jack Hodgins
• The Resurrection of Experience: A Review of Andrzej Stasiuk’s Dukla — Jason DeYoung
• Rite of Spring: Essay from Dukla — Andrzej Stasiuk

Vol. III, No. 16, April 16, 2012

• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jamie Travis’s “Seven Sins: Greed” — Introduced by R. W. Gray
• We Are Meat Machines: A Meditation on Death & Dying — Brianna Berbenuik
• Iphigénie en Haute-Ville: roman de François Blais
• Disappearing Bodies: Paintings by Levi Nicholat — Introduced by Kim Aubrey
• Letter from Bolivia: Carnaval de Oruro — Diane Lefer

Vol. III, No. 15, April 9, 2012

• The Artist: Short Story by Lindsay Norville
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Everynone’s “Words,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• The End of the Story: Fiction by the Argentinian Novelist Liliana Heker
• A Nation Plays Chopsticks: Short Fiction — Mark Anthony Jarman
• Crash: Short Fiction by Adrienne Love

Vol. III, No. 14, April 2, 2012

• Numéro Cinq at the (So Bad They’re Good) Movies: Godfrey Ho’s “Catman in Boxer’s Blow,” introduced by Megan MacKay
• Carnival of the Imagination: An Interview with Gladys Swan by Joyce Townsend
• How To Write A Novel — Douglas Glover
• The Essay As An Open Field: Robert Vivian
• Two Selves Divided: Poems by Marilyn McCabe
• At Work in the Fields of the Bulwer-Lytton: Short Story by Bill Gaston

Vol. III, No. 13, March 26, 2012

• Dancing with the Sacred: Nonfiction by Phyllis Barber
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Lucrecia Martel’s “Muta,” introduced by Sophie Lavoie
• Imagined Places: Drawings by Ilyana Martinez — Introduced by Kim Aubrey
• The Untitled (91): Poem — Garry Thomas Morse
• The Raid: Fiction by Eugene K. Garber

Vol. III, No. 12, March 19, 2012

• When Bright Faith Dissolves: Essay & Mandala — Laura Catherine Brown
• Letter From Bolivia: Days and Nights in Cochabamba — Diane Lefer
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jamie Travis’s “The Armoire,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• A Man Walks Into A Bar: Fiction by Kate Reuther
• Lonely Oceans: Poems — Gary Moore
• The Madness of Architecture —The Architecture of Madness: Fiction by Svetislav Basara
• Structuring Madness: Notes Toward an Understanding of Svetislav Basara — Taylor Davis-Van Atta

Vol. III, No. 11, March 12, 2012

• Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, and Old Cairo: Natalia Sarkissian
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chris Russell’s “Zombie in a Penguin Suit,” introduced by Jon Dewar
• Pho-toems: Nance Van Winckel
• Unskunked: An Essay — Sydney Lea
• Let Us Be Silent Here: Poems in English and Spanish — John B. Lee/Manuel de Jesus Velázquez Léon

Vol. III, No. 10, March 5, 2012

• The Voice of Solitude: A Review Of Kjersti Skomsvold’s The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am — Mary Stein
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Erika Janunger’s “Weightless,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Tracks: An Italian Memoir — Genni Gunn
• What It’s like Living Here — from Erin Stagg in New Zealand
• Le lit de Procuste: des nouvelles par Gilles Pellerin

Vol. III, No. 9, February 27, 2012

• Readiness Practice: A Poem by Kate Fetherston
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Rodrigo Gudiño and Vincent Marcone’s “The Facts in the Case of Mr Hollow,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Professor O’Blivion Rides Again: Noah Gataveckas
• The Road: Fiction by David Helwig
• Double Exposure: An Interview with Darin Strauss — Richard Farrell

Vol. III, No. 8, February 20, 2012

• The Un-creation of the Wor(l)d: Conceptual Poetry as Kabbalistic Trope — Adeena Karasick
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Nicholas Humphries’s “The One That Got Away,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• We Are All From The Camps: A Review of Oksana Zabuzhko’s Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex — Brianna Berbenuik
• A Map of the Invisible: Paintings — Gladys Swan
• The Headmaster’s Wife: Fiction by Thomas Christopher Greene

Vol. III, No. 7, February 13, 2012

• Une Ruine Coquille Vide By Paul Éluard, Music by Poulenc, Sung (& Translated) by Marilyn McCabe
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Amorous Delays, Cyborg Women, Writing, and Traveling Trains of Longing — R. W. Gray
• The Columbus Syndrome Redux: Robin Hemley in Cuba
• Human Resources: Fiction by Connie Gault
• Coming Home at Seventeen: Poems by Julianna Baggott

Vol. III, No. 6, February 6, 2012

• On Courage: Essay — Richard Farrell
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Toby MacDonald’s “Je t’aime John Wayne,” introduced by Jon Dewar
• Chiaroscuro: A Memoir — Patrick J. Keane
• Sketches of an Orange: A Prose Poem by R. W. Gray
• Moonlit Memories of Immature Genius: Mary Ruefle

Vol. III, No. 5, January 30, 2012

• We’ve All Gone to Look for America: Memoir by Samantha Bernstein
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ang Lee’s “The Chosen,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Blue Clouds: Fiction by Cynthia Flood
• A&S and Elaine! — Poems by Douglas Goetsch
• The Orange Bird: A Story by Gladys Swan

Vol. III, No. 4, January 23, 2012

• Hallway Snowstorm: A Very Short Story by Mark Anthony Jarman
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Alicia Duffy’s “The Most Beautiful Man in the World,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• This Poem, Part II, by Adeena Karasick
• The Place of Wendell Berry: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
• Mark, a play by Lynn Coady
• What It’s Like Living Here, from Liam Volke in Victoria, British Columbia

Vol. III, No. 3, January 16, 2012

• The Parkinson’s Diaries, by Steven Axelrod
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Tom Tykwer’s “Faubourg Saint-Denis,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Letter from Taos: Too Horrible, Too Beautiful — Jean-Marie Saporito
• My Search for Jesus Hardwell, Profile & Interview by Ian Colford
• Thoughts on the Meditative Essay: Robert Vivian

Vol. III, No. 2, January 09, 2012

• Poems from Jorge Carrera Andrade’s Micrograms
• Manufacturing Dreams: An Interview with Anthony Doerr
• From “The Deep” by Anthony Doerr
• Prayers & Dreams: Poems by Denise Evans Durkin
• Turbulence: Paintings by Anne Diggory
• A Bargain, a short story by Dave Margoshes

Vol. III, No. 1, January 2, 2012

• Cave Diving With Einstein, Poems by Laura Behr
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Wong Kar Wai’s “There’s Only One Sun,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Letter from Paris: Life Lessons in Père Lachaise Cemetery — Sion Dayson
• The Mind’s Eye – Character Thought in Fiction, by Erin Stagg

 

2011

Vol. II, No. 51, December 19 & 26, 2011

• Tainted Success and the Heroes of Martin Scorsese, an essay by Philip Marchand
• NC at the Movies: John Cage’s 4′33” (full orchestral version)
• Everything Starts With Language, A Review of Gary Lutz’s divorcer by Jason DeYoung
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jason Eisener’s “Treevenge”
• Amphetamine Heart: Poems & Readings by Liz Worth
• The Fairy Tale of Dexter Arjuna, President-Elect, Short Story by Adam Lewis Schroeder
• L’Immacolata: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Liguria, Italy, by Natalia Sarkissian

Vol. II, No. 50, December 12, 2011

• Making the Little Monsters Walk: Interview with Brad Watson — Richard Farrell
• From Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, Fiction by Brad Watson
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jane Campion’s “The Water Diary,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Sprezzatura with Two Rabbits, A Poem by Alan Michael Parker
• The In-Between Generation: A Review of Kazushi Hosaka’s Novel Plainsong By Brianna Berbenuik
• Lady Day, A Short Story by XU XI
• An Excerpt from Plainsong, A Novel by Kazushi Hosaka

Vol. II, No. 49, December 5, 2011

• Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood, Essay by Nancy Eimers
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Pedro Pires’s “Danse Macabre,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Arise and Go Now, A Short Story by Sheridan Hay
• Childhood, An Essay by Liz Blood
• A Feeling for the Model Organism: Essay by Lynne Quarmby

Vol. II, No. 48, November 28, 2011

• And Make Mine a Double: Interview with Keith Lee Morris — Richard Farrell
• Ayudame, A Short Story by Keith Lee Morris
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chris Milk’s “The Wilderness Downtown,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• The Answer I Found in a Fortune Cookie: Toward a Digital Conception of Nonfiction, by John Proctor
• Mississauga: Cadence of Desire and Return, A Childhood Geografictione by Cheryl Cowdy

Vol. II, No. 47, November 21, 2011

• Girl Wearing Bear, or Elle, the Poem, by John Watson
• Peering over the Precipice, A Review of Fall Higher by Dean Young
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: John Bolton’s “Breakdown,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Bermuda Voices, Island Writers, An Essay By Kim Aubrey
• The Struggle for the Centre: One City’s Adventure With Modernity, By Nathan Storring

Vol. II, No. 46, November 14, 2011

• On the Prayerful in Poetry: William Olsen
• From Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Essays by Mark Frutkin
• Book of Raunch: A Review of Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes By Steven Axelrod
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Chris Milk’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• More Adventures at the Bottom of the World, Laura Von Rosk Reports from Antarctica
• Lipstick and Cigarettes, A Short Play by Dwight Storring
• The Feast of Sacrifice: Eid-al-Adha at Alexandria, Egypt, by Natalia Sarkissian

 Vol. II, No. 45, November 7, 2011

• The Devil’s Dictionary for Writers, By Steven Heighton
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Julie Trimingham’s film triptych “beauty crowds me,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Marilyn McCabe Translates (& Sings) a Paul-Armand Silvestre Poem (Music by Gabriel Fauré)
• What It’s Like Living Here, from Danila Botha in Toronto

Vol. II, No. 44, October 31, 2011

• What it’s like living in Antarctica — from Laura Von Rosk at McMurdo Station
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Spencer Susser’s “I Love Sarah Jane,” Introduced by R. W. Gray
• Becoming-masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n – 1 Dimensions: Essay — Cheryl Cowdy
• Lines of Flight: Novels, Nets, Turnips & Nomads — Cheryl Cowdy and Douglas Glover
• Why do we burn books? or, The burning question of our movement: Essay — Noah R. Gataveckas
• Look at the Camera, A Journey through Childhood’s Photographic Space — Eric Foley

Vol. II, No. 43, October 24, 2011

• Hurricane Irene—What It Was Like, from Hilary Mullins in Bethel, Vermont
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies, Halloween Edition: Andres Muschietti’s “Mama,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Three Poems by Blanca Castellón
• Joseph Wood Krutch’s Natural Personality: Nature Writing in America — Adam Arvidson

Vol. II, No. 42, October 17, 2011

• Consider Desire: Poems by Leslie Ullman
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jan Kounen’s “The Story of Panshin Beka” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Our Endless Past: An Interview with Donald Breckenridge — Mary Stein

Vol. II, No. 41, October 10, 2011

• Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Essay by Patrick J. Keane
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Trevor Anderson’s “The Island” introduced by R. W. Gray
• The Perplexing Other, A Review of Dorianne Laux’s The Book of Men by A. Anupama
• Shame, a short story by Benjamin Woodard

Vol. II, No. 40, October 3, 2011

• The Man with the Bagful of Boomerangs in the Bois de Boulogne, A Short Story by Joseph McElroy
• Immersed in Mystery, A Review of Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul and Other Stories, By Jason DeYoung
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Miranda July and Miguel Arteta’s “Are You the Favourite Person of Anybody?” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Mucking Up the Landscape: Poetic Tendencies in Prose, Essay by Mary Stein
• Childhood: An Essay in Writing Myself, By Rick Martin

Vol. II, No. 39, September 26, 2011

• The Filthiest of Shiny Things, Fiction by Carrie Cogan
• Searching for a Literary Burning Man, By Wendy Voorsanger
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Jane Campion’s “Passionless Moments,” introduced by R. W. Gray
• Postcards from Italy: Lake Como, September 2011, by Natalia Sarkissian
• The Power of Rachel Carson: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson

Vol. II, No. 38, September 19, 2011

• The Courage to Write and Publish Your Story: Five Reasons Why it’s Important to Write Memoir, By Sue William Silverman
• Writing a War Story, An Essay by Richard Farrell
• Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Ruth Meehan’s short film And the Red Man Went Green, introduced by R. W. Gray
• A “Dark Star” Passes Through It, an Essay by Leslie Ullman

Vol. II, No. 37, September 12, 2011

• An Alien Feeling, from Sion Dayson in Paris
• We Flew Kites, a Bermuda Childhood — Kim Aubrey
• Translations of Classical Tamil Love Poetry, Essay and Poems by A. Anupama

Vol. II, No. 36, September 5, 2011

• Keeping Silent? Writing Fiction After September 11, Essay by Erika Dreifus
• Wild Strawberries, Poems by Lee Busby
• Siena’s Palio: A Medieval Horserace Turns Viral, Text and Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian

Vol. II, No. 35, August 29, 2011

• 8:46, A 9/11 Story by Philip Graham

Vol. II, No. 34, August 22, 2011

• Wan, A Short Story by Dawn Promislow
• “Couplets (in Meditation of Self-Defeat)” and “Western Tenet,” Poems by Benjamin Evans
• Jean Valentine, Jayne Cortez, Gary Soto, Amiri Baraka, Ed Sanders & More — Photos by Dan Wilcox
• “A Diminished Thing” and “Pincushion Doll,” Poems by Julie Larios
• We’re the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World, or: You’re Doing It Wrong – The Fight Club Identity Crisis by Brianna Berbenuik
• Two Stories Not-Exactly-About Love: Fiction — Danila Botha

Vol. II, No. 33, August 15, 2011

• Saddened and Riddled with Nostalgia — Douglas Glover
• The Cimbalom Player, a Short Story by Julie Marden
• Poems from Domestic Love — Karen Mulhallen
• From The Crimes of Hector Tomás by Ian Colford

Vol. II, No. 32, August 8, 2011

• What It’s Like Living Here — from Allison Kaufman in Connecticut
• Four Poems By Sheryl Luna

Vol. II, No. 31, August 1, 2011

• My Owls, Essay, Photos & Video from Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• Tahrir Square, August 2011: Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian
• From Seawrack: Poems by David Helwig
• From Field Rations, Poems by Melinda Thomsen
• Sontag & Kael: Criticism is demolition? an essay by Michael Bryson

Vol. II, No. 30, July 25, 2011

• The Day After the Memoir: An Interview with Steven Church — John Proctor
• In Search of the Author, Barthes Be Damned: A Review of The Selected Stories of Mercé Rodoreda by Richard Farrell
• Winter Coat, Winter Count (Assiniboia Death Trip), a short story by Mark Anthony Jarman

Vol. II, No. 29, July 17, 2011

• Rintrah: Essay upon a Cat — Patrick J. Keane
• From The Memory of Water, Poems by Jack Myers
• The Plumber’s Dream, a short story by Ben Johnstone
• In Hell We All Burn Brightly: Bret Easton Ellis’s Empire vs. Post-Empire — Brianna Berbenuik
• Categories of Untruth: the CNF debate continues, by Adam Regn Arvidson
• Katahdin & Other Poems By Sharon McCartney
• Chatting with ET: Dialogue between The Actual and The Possible, an essay by Lynne Quarmby

Vol. II, No. 28, July 11, 2011

• Criticism Through Imagery: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
• Three Poems From Eliot Khalil Wilson
• The Sky Is Red at Bordeaux: Photographs — Natalia Sarkissian
• The Policeman’s Wife, some letters, Poems by Marina Endicott
• My First Job — Steven Axelrod

Vol. II, No. 27, July 4, 2011

• The Formalist Reformation, A Review of Viktor Shklovsky’s Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar by Bruce Stone
• From Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar by Viktor Shklovsky, Translated by Shushan Avagyan
• “Writing Instruction as a Social Practice: or What I Did (and Learned) in Barrancabermeja,” by Diane Lefer
• From Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha by Matthew Stadler
• Almost Independence Day: Nonfiction — Richard Farrell

Vol. II, No. 26, June 27, 2011

• Alice & Huck: Screenplay by R. W. Gray
• A Rake’s Progress: Susan Olding
• On the Making of Wings Over Arda, Richard Hartshorn’s Film Diary
• Katie Vibert: ICÔNES NORDIQUES

Vol. II, No. 25, June 20, 2011

• Narrative Genres and THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Case of Daisy Goodwill’s Rebellion By María JesúsHernáez Lerena
• Marilyn McCabe Sings (& Translates) a Guillaume Apollinaire Poem
• The Immortality of the Crab: Nonfiction — John Proctor
• Egypt After the Revolution, Part II: Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian
• Flaubert and Cows by Mary Stein

Vol. II, No. 24, June 13, 2011

• About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter, an essay by Richard Farrell
• From The Book of Happenstance: Ingrid Winterbach
• Summoning Eternity, A Review of Ingrid Winterbach’s The Book of Happenstance by Jacob Glover
• My First Job: Melissa Fisher — Winner of the 3 Quarks Daily $1,000 Arts & Literature Prize
• Knowing What Happens: Interview with Mavis Gallant by Jason DeYoung
• Gunslinger & Angel of Death: Fiction by Casper Martin
• The Enigmatic Edward Hoagland: Nature Writing in America — Adam Arvidson

Vol. II, No. 23, June 6, 2011

• James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons, by Anna Maria Johnson
• Chapters from a Collaborative Novel by Abby Frucht and Laurie Alberts
• Star Suite: Poems — Gary Moore

Vol. II, No. 22, May 30, 2011

• es muss sein? es muss nicht sein, i tell you, a poem by Brianna Berbenuik
• My First Job — Natalia Sarkissian
• Whirlpool (All Tremors Cease): Underwater Video Meditation by Steven David Johnson, posted by Anna Maria Johnson
• St. John’s, Newfoundland, photos by Nicole Dixon
• Crisp: Short Story — R. W. Gray
• “Titboning Vargina” (and Other Social Readings): a Review of Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask, by Darryl Whetter

Vol. II, No. 21, May 23, 2011

• Three Poems — Maya Sarishvili
• from Two Rivers: Fiction — T. Greenwood
• The Confluence of Rivers: An Interview With Tammy Greenwood — Richard Farrell
• God’s Flea: A Play — Diane Lefer
• Three Poems — Ray Hsu

Vol. II, No. 20, May 16, 2011

• Waiting For Romesh, a short story by Clark Blaise
• Reasons to Rejoice in Green Algae, by Lynne Quarmby
• What it’s like living here: Stanley Fogel’s Cuba
• Move It or Lose It, An essay by Martin Balgach
• Where are today’s Steinbecks? A response by Mark Lupinetti

Vol. II, No. 19, May 9, 2011

• Kilroy: A Writer’s Childhood — Keith Maillard
• Childhood — Court Merrigan
• “What It’s Like Living Here” from Danielle Frandina in San Francisco
• Three Poems by Kim Fu

Vol. II, No. 18, May 2, 2011

• from Zone: Fiction by Mathias Énard
• This Ancient World, A Review of Mathias Énard’s Zone, by Mary Stein
• “What it’s like living here,” from Diane Lefer in Los Angeles
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” from Laura Catherine Brown in Manhattan
• Jesus Was a Punk Rocker, a Short Story by Danila Botha
• Foran’s Version, a review by Darryl Whetter
• Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden, an essay by Richard Farrell
• Poems by Cesare Pavese, Translated by Richard Jackson
• Egypt After the Revolution: Photographs by Natalia Sarkissian

Vol. II, No. 17, April 25, 2011

• And the Sign Said, A Photo Essay by Melissa Fisher
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” by Liz Blood in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
• Sabah Al Khair Habibti, a collage, by Natalia Sarkissian
• Five Photographs by Robert Semeniuk
• POIESIS OF THE PAST: A historian’s reading of the short story ‘Youth, a narrative’ by Joseph Conrad, By J.N.F.M. à Campo

Vol. II, No. 16, April 18, 2011

• Three Prairie Schooner Edward Stanley Award-Winning Poems By Nance Van Winckel

Vol. II, No. 15, April 11, 2011

• from The Sixty-Five Years of Washington: Fiction in Translation — Juan José Saer
• Elegant Uncertainty, A review of Juan Jose Saer’s novel The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Richard Farrell
• from DNA, a novel by Johannah Rodgers
• Stem Cells and the Fountain of Youth, an essay by Lynne Quarmby
• from Kindred Spirits, 400 Years of an American Family: Nonfiction — by Joe David Bellamy

Vol. II, No. 14, April 4, 2011

• The I(r)onic Bond, a Chemical Romance, by Jonah Glover
• Long Point, a Geography of the Soul, Collected by Douglas Glover
• Four poems from Otherwise Elsewhere, by David Rivard
• The Substitute, from Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will Be Funny
• Mixes and Collisions: A Numéro Cinq Interview With Mark Anthony Jarman by Mary Stein
• Childhood, by Cynthia Newberry Martin
• Forever: Poem — Sydney Lea

Vol. II, No. 13, March 28, 2011

• Wanna Groom? A Review of Sex at Dawn by Darryl Whetter
• Escape Mushroom Style: Fiction — Trinie Dalton
• What it’s like living here (a charticle) — from Kate Reuther in New York City
• Edward Abbey’s Access to Wildness: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
• On the Hunt for Elusive Literary Game: the Premio Bagutta, Italy’s Oldest Literary Prize, by Natalia Sarkissian
• Blind Spots, an Essay by Richard Farrell
• from Fatherless: Memoir by Keith Maillard

Vol. II, No. 12, March 21, 2011

• Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation in the Novel — Vanessa Blakeslee
• Speculating on Divinity Genes, a Review by Peter Chiykowski
• Four Poems from Oz: Nancy Eimers
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” from Mary Donovan in Wheaton, Maryland
• from The Blue Guitar, a novel by Ann Ireland
• “The Dayroom,” a personal essay by inmate # 6666666Z, Texas Department of Corrections

Vol. II, No. 11, March 14, 20011

• Excerpt from Trail of Breadcrumbs: Why I Joined and Left the US Navy — Memoir by Christy Clothier
• “Now the Green Blade Rises,” a sermon by Maggie Helwig
• The Soul’s Habitation: Emotion and Writing, by Richard Farrell

Vol. II, No. 10, March 7, 2011

• “The Infinite,” a poem by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Richard Jackson
• Let’s See Them Top That (And Other Neat Things To Do In Las Vegas), an Essay by Brianna Berbenuik
• “Weathers and Places,” an Essay by Sydney Lea
• “Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, & More,” Author Photos by Dan Wilcox
• “Shooting Guns,” an Essay by Brianna Berbenuik
• Evidence of Life; An Essay from Richard Farrell
• Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator — Richard Jackson

Vol. II, No. 9, February 28, 2011

• “What It’s Like Living Here,” from Kim Aubrey in Saskatoon, Saskatchewa
• Gregor: A Short Story — Quim Monzó
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” from John Proctor in New York City
• “I Am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover’s Elle,” an Essay by Pedro M. Carmona Rodríguez
• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 10 – Many Partings (by Richard Hartshorn)
• Loren Eiseley’s Two Cultures: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
• The Quirky Bird Art of Paula Swisher, by Anna Maria Johnson
• Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work — Richard Farrell
• David Levithan’s Argot of Arousal, a review by Darryl Whetter

Vol. II, No. 8, February 21, 2011

• “The Real McCoy,” an essay by Renee Giovarelli
• “Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript,” an essay by Patrick J. Keane
• Introduction: Nature Writing in America — Adam Regn Arvidson
• A Letter from Italy, by Natalia Sarkissian

Vol. II, No. 7, February 14, 2011

• Childhood — Michelle Berry
• What It’s Like Living Here — from Cheryl Wilder in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Niagara: Short Story by Michael Bryson
• What It’s Like Living Here — Richard Farrell in San Diego, CA
• Poems — Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe & Mary Sanders Shartle
• Rue Rouge: Fiction — Connie Gault
• A Letter from Italy — Natalia Sarkissian

Vol. II, No. 6, February 7, 2011

• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 9: Theatrical Trailer — Richard Hartshorn
• Childhood: Brad Green
• An Exploration of the Poem Painting and More, by Wendy Voorsanger
• The Author and the eBook, an essay by Ian Colford
• Three Poems from The Pillow Books, by Karen Mulhallen

Vol. II, No. 5, January 31, 2011

• Riffing on Whirlpools: Anna Maria Johnson & Steven David Johnson
• Lives of the Saints, A Short Story by Jess Row
• Four Poems from Sand Theory: William Olsen
• “Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire,” By Haijo Westra & Adam Westra
• “What it’s like living here,” from Anna Maria Johnson and Steven David Johnson in Cootes Store, Virginia

Vol. II, No. 4, January 24, 2011

• From Kiss Me, Kill Me — Domenic Stansberry’s Debut Graphic Novel
• Domenic Stansberry’s Noir Manifesto
• Godliness, at Last: Reflections on The Challenger Disaster, by Rich Farrell
• What it’s like living here — from Sarah Seltzer in New York City
• Missing Dad — Natalia Sarkissian
• Cross-Canada Car Photo Essay by Barrett Olson-Glover
• What it’s like living here — from Lynne Quarmby in West Vancouver, British Columbia

Vol. II, No. 3, January 17, 2011

• Amanda Jernigan: Five poems from Groundwork
• Childhood — Steven Axelrod
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” by Gwen Mullins in Chattanooga

Vol. II, No. 2, January 10, 2011

• Five Movements of the Soul and Hodgepodge by Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris
• “What it’s like living here,” from Michelle Berry in Peterborough, Ontario
• In Praise of Barry Lopez (and Salt), by John Proctor
• “What It’s Like Living Here,” from Jeanie Chung in Chicago
• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 8 – Initial Opinions and the Disconnect (by Richard Hartshorn)
• Plot Structure in Short Stories: Gwen Mullins
• From THE LAME DOLL by Besik Kharanauli, translated from Georgian by Timothy Kercher and Ani Kopaliani
• Richard Farrell’s Non-Commencement Commencement Address, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Graduation, January, 2011

Vol. II, No. 1, January 3, 2011

• “Laurianne’s Choice,” a short story by Ian Colford
• “Quality Time on the Bay of Silence, Sestri Levante,” from Natalia Sarkissian in Italy

 

2010

Vol. I, No. 42, December 27, 2010

• “Impromptus for the New Year: December 2010,” poems by David Helwig
• “Meditation on Mary, for Advent,” a sermon by Anna Maria Johnson
• “What it’s like living here,” from Renee Giovarelli in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Vol. I, No. 41, December 20, 2010

• from The Secret Life of Objects, by Dawn Raffel
• “We Feed Horses in the Hopes that the Lowly Sparrows Might (eventually) Benefit,” a Christmas Sermon by Rev. John Ekman
• from The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire: Fiction — C. M. Mayo

Vol. I, No. 40, December 13, 2010

• Six Poems by Darryl Whetter
• What I Want: Poem — Gary Moore
• What it’s like living here — from Robin Oliveira on Cougar Mountain, just outside Seattle
• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 7 – Middle-earth Tunes on Zero Budget, by Richard Hartshorn
• Doctor White’s Monkey, a novella by Christopher Noel
• What It’s Like Living Here — from Adam Arvidson in Minneapolis
• Unintentional Pugilism: A Memoir — Richard Farrell

Vol. I, No. 39, December 6, 2010

• Zombie, a photo by Jonah Glover
• What it’s like living here — from Glenn Arnold in Edmonton
• Ideas of Reference, a novella by Mike Barnes
• from Vergers, Three Poems by Rilke Translated by Marilyn McCabe
• Another Way to Fill an Empty Room: The Voice of Amy Hempel’s Aesthetic — Mary Stein
• “Slava,” a story by Russell Working

Vol. I, No. 38, November 29, 2010

• I Am a Motel: Short Story (with collages) — Diane Schoemperlen
• “Montaigne’s Motifs, Part 4: We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means, Looking Also at Albert Goldbarth’s ‘Griffin’” by John Proctor
• “What it’s like living here,” from Natalia Sarkissian in Milan
• Wings Over Arda film diary 6: Post-Production by Richard Hartshorn
• What it’s like living here — from Brad Green in Denton, Texas
• Poems by Andrej Hočevar, translated from Slovenian by Andrej Hočevar & Kelly Lenox
• “Wine List (on the Rhetoric of Lists in Narrative)” by Adam Arvidson
• “In the Muddy Shoes of Morning,” a poem by John B. Lee

Vol. I, No. 37, November 22, 2010

• Monotypes by Felicia van Bork
• “What it’s like living here,” from Kim Aubrey in Toronto
• The Video Art of Christine Dehne by John Proctor

Vol. I, No. 36, November 15, 2010

• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 5 – Something in Motion by Richard Hartshorn
• What it’s like living here — from Carrie Cogan on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
• “From a novel-in-progress,” by Mike Barnes
• “From Mihail Sebastian’s novel The Accident” translated by Stephen Henighan

Vol. I, No. 35, November 8, 2010

• What it’s like living here — from Court Merrigan in Torrington, Wyoming
• Hunter: Fiction — Ariel Smart
• Theology: Poem — Dave Margoshes
• Gimme a B, Gimme a U, Gimme a T, What’s That Spell? (part two: mood-change buts): Craft — Adam Arvidson
• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 4: Writing the Fight by Richard Hartshorn
• After Reading Heidegger and Seeing a Dead Rat, Translated into Latin — Jacob Glover

Vol. I, No. 34, November 1, 2010

• Five Paintings — Lynne Quarmby
• What it’s like living here — from Cynthia Newberry Martin in Columbus, Georgia
• Seven Poems — Goran Simic
• Bird at the University: Poem — Micheline Maylor
• Montaigne’s Motifs, Part 3: Writing as Conversation, with a Modern Nod to Patrick Madden — John Proctor

Vol. I, No. 33, October 25, 2010

• Gimme a B, Gimme a U, Gimme a T, What’s That Spell? (part one: but-introductions): Craft — Adam Arvidson
• A Right Like Yours: Short Story — Steven Heighton
• What it’s like living here — from Shelagh Shapiro in Burlington, VT
• Excerpts from The Committee on Town Happiness: Fiction — Alan Michael Parker
• There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality — Laura-Rose Russell

Vol. I, No. 32, October 18, 2010

• Stars: Poem — David Helwig
• After Reading Heidegger and Seeing a Dead Rat: Poem — Jacob Glover
• What it’s like living here — Steven Axelrod on Nantucket

Vol. I, No. 31, October 11, 2010

• Four Paintings — Leon Rooke
• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 3- Making Art by Richard Hartshorn
• “Picking Brains and Giving Proper Credit,” by Adam Arvidson
• A Diet Plan That Works: Poem by Nickole Brown
• “After the Hurricane,” a Stephen Henighan short story

Vol. I, No. 30, October 4, 2010

• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 2 – Liberties/First Day of Shooting
• “Four Approximations of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65 BCE-8 BCE), from the Odes,” by Steven Heighton
• The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature: Jill Glass
• “The Tangerine Quandary,” a story by Diane Lefer
• What It’s Like Living Here — from Natalia Sarkissian in Milan
• “Writing Before God: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard,” an essay by Andrew Hood

Vol. I, No. 29, September 27, 2010

• Son of Light: Short Story — Leon Rooke
• From Julius Caesar’s The Gallic Wars — translated by Jacob Glover
• Fathers & Sons — Richard Farrell
• Canadians in the Attic: Jeet Heer on Hugh Kenner’s The Elsewhere Community

Vol. I, No. 28, September 20, 2010

• “Wings Over Arda” Film Diary 1- Notes on the Adaptation Process
• “Montaigne’s Motifs, Part 2: The Dialectic of List and Story, with Joe Brainard in Tow” by John Proctor
• Four Paintings by Laura Von Rosk
• Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construction of the Self in Three Short Stories: Rebecca Martin

Vol. I, No. 27, September 13, 2010

• #1 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• Recap of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• “What it’s like living here” from Donigan Merritt in Patagonia
• Off The Page: Novel-in-a-Box by Anna Maria Johnson
• Off The Page: New Nance Van Winckel Photocollages

Vol. I, No. 26, September 6, 2010

• Excerpt from Solitaria, a Novel by Genni Gunn
• “Disperspective” a poem by William Hathaway
• “Fighting” a poem by Martin Balgach

Vol. I, No. 25, August 30, 2010

• A Kayaker, a Fisherman, and a Scientist Walk Into a Story…. — Adam Arvidson
• #2 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell

Vol. I, No. 24, August 23, 2010

• “Bigger Than Life” a story by Naton Leslie
• Keyboard Jam — Jonah Glover
• The Longest Destroyed Poem: A Story by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Vol. I, No. 23, August 16, 2010

• Montaigne and Didion: Integrating Universal Ideas with Personal Narrative — John Proctor
• “Mariska’s Tongue,” a Story by Jason DeYoung

Vol. I, No. 22, August 9, 2010

• #3 of The Top 10 Things I Learned Last Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) —Richard Farrell

Vol. I, No. 21, July 26, 2010

• #4 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell

Vol. i, No. 20, July 19, 2010

• From the Writer’s Hands: Off-the-Page Projects from VCFA Writing Students, Summer 2010

Vol. I, No. 19, July 5, 2010

• #5 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• Pho-toems — Nance Van Winckel

Vol. I, No. 18, June 28, 2010

• Gödel, Hofstadter, & the Self: Nonfiction — Adam Westra

Vol. I, No. 17, June 21, 2010

• Becoming a Writer: Poem by Dave Margoshes
• #6 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• “Hear My Call,” a sermon by Hilary Mullins

Vol I, No. 16, June 14, 2010

• #7 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• #8 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell
• The December Astronauts (or Moonbase Horse Code): Short Story by Mark Anthony Jarman

Vol. 1, No. 15, June 7, 2010

• My Life in Television: Fiction — Michael Bryson
• Excerpt from Midway, a novel by David Homel
• #9 of The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester: (Invitation to a Re-shredding) — Richard Farrell)

Vol. 1, No. 14, May 31 , 2010

• “The Advantages of Living,” a short story by Bruce Stone
• “On Reading the Poems of Someone Buried in Poet’s Corner,” a poem by Julie Larios
• Degenerates, Monks and Writers: Nonfiction — Richard Farrell

Vol. 1, No. 13, May 24, 2010

• Dutch: Fiction — Mark Maxwell
• Burroughs & Son: Nonfiction — John Proctor
• “Burning Land” a poem by John B. Lee

Vol. 1, No. 12 May 10, 2010

• The Night Window: Fiction — Bill Gaston
• 7 Things I Learned from Reading 15 List Essays — John Proctor
• On Victoria Redel’s Swoon — Douglas Glover
• The Admen Move on Lhasa: On Steven Heighton’s Essays — Richard Farrell
• NC at the Movies: Philip Hartshorn’s Kleos Aphthiton — Introduced by Richard Hartshorn

Vol. 1, No. 11, May 3, 2010

• My Name is Mary Sutter: Robin Oliveira’s Book Tour Diary
• from Every Lost Country, a new novel by Steven Heighton
• On White: Nonfiction — Kate McCahill

Vol. 1, No. 10, April 26, 2010

• Rat Death & Dickens: Nonfiction — Douglas Glover
• Excerpt from Sarah/Sara, a novel by Jacob Paul
• “Faulkner Mississippi: April 1982″ an essay by Jack Hodgins

Vol. I, No. 9, April 19, 2010

• Herself, Revised: poem — Steven Heighton

Vol. 1, No. 8, April 12, 2010

• Sanders, Shklovsky, and the Role of the Personal Essayist — John Proctor
• The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders — Richard Farrell
• From This Young Girl Passing: Fiction— Donald Breckenridge

Vol. 1, No. 7, April 5, 2010

• Technique & Function of Thematic Passages in Two Stories by Anton Chekhov — Julie Marden
• Talking to a 17-Year-Old Girl, When You are a 16-Year-Old Boy — Jonah Glover
• Spring Break & Girls with Monkey(s): On Leonard Michaels — Richard Farrell

Vol. 1, No. 6, March 22, 2010

• Acquainted With Absence by Karen Mulhallen, an Introduction — Douglas Glover

Vol. 1, No. 5, March 15, 2010

• On Kierkegaard: Essay — Jacob Glover
• About Love: Numéro Cinq Premieres New Chekhov Translation by David Helwig

Vol. 1, No. 4, March 8, 2010

• Bitterness: Poem — William Hathaway
• Carpaccio’s Dog: Poems — Karen Mulhallen

Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1, 2010

• Death in Venice — Richard Farrell
• How to Write a Story: Fiction — Robin Oliveira
• Solomon’s Judgement: Poem — Karen Mulhallen

Vol. I, No. 2, February 22, 2010

• On Spinoza: Essay — Jacob Glover

Vol. I, No. 1, February 1, 2010

• Montaigne ‘On Experience’ & defecation: Essay — Jacob Glover